After you get in the Warrior Diet groove, you will find that pressing, pulling, flipping, banging, smashing, kipping, snatching, jerrking, and all movements not mentioned is a pleasant add to your day. Let me go OFF on this tangent I just spawned in my headspace, and you shall understand. . .If strength is a skill, and should be approached as so, and sets of drills we know are satisfactory can be applied all day every day with nothing but positive gains to report, then why is not food as fuel approached from the same angle? Oh wait, yeah it is. Some guy who I recognized as an author for Penthouse Magazine wrote a book that did not exactly wow Oprah, but helped me lose 20kg of nasty adipose in 16 weeks To the DAY [at a lean body mass of 105kgs that is not that hard]. It is called The Warrior Diet, and it makes more sense than a set of arithmetic flash cards. 1+6=pood. Graze + GTG= lean and daggone MEAN!
Since moving to CA and adopting an attitude that has seriously corrected bad eating behavior, and using the warrior diet as HOMEBASE, and training in doses of 3 or 5 moments of strength [shout out to Kevin and Russell Jodrey of Redwood Kettlebell Club and A. Diluglio of PUNCH, all of which are RKC, all of which are about the multiple minutes of strength during the day] each day, I have kept musculoskeletal aches at bay and developed a mutated degree of freshness with my Session Based Energy. Whenever I tap that keg, and the bells are moving or the calisthenics train is hummin', I am good to go minus a single thought to what my glycemic load is. Now, did I answer the question regarding Your energy levels? Maybe. But I showed you a model that runs parallel between two of the most important avenues in our human lifetimes- chow and training. We do not eat and exercise, we take a chow time and author moments of strength. We eat a handful of grapes and drink a glass of milk. When we see a 'bell we press it. You go to business lunch with other gerbils and they order buffalo wings and beer. You order 3 boiled eggs and have a good morning stretch in the loo. They eat, you fuel. They burn calories, you burn the fat off your soul. Of this brotherhood of iron, this merry band of jolly tamers, we are united. For he who sheds a minute to press, and uses his palm as a measure of chow requirements, is my brother. [sisters too! I love girls who lift]
So follow the warrior diet and grease the groove with every move.
Amen brother Will! Glad to see that you have changed your eating habits for good!
ReplyDeleteAs they say, "Nothing tastes as good as being lean feels!"
Rock on!!!!
And what of those of us who are not "brethern" or whose nutrition plan does not cry "ooh rah" in its title, but we also fuel by the principles of eat the right stuff often; move the right way often. are we, we happless we, outside this circle of iron?
ReplyDeletethe way isn't the name; it's the way.
sir,
mc
Franz you are dead on. That is a great quote. Nothing tastes better than being lean feels. How as Yoana'a birthday? Any birthday snatches there?
ReplyDeleteMC,
ReplyDeleteYou do what's right. You need no ooh rah in your game to make it work. Not everyone needs to gear up and ramp out to make the big changes. This was a necessary change, and I had to get psyched about it. I am a high energy dude by nature. . .sometimes hot water with lemon is a better selection than coffee, you know?
W
OUT
sir,
ReplyDeletethey say julius caesar didn't drink wine and on campagn in summer drank water with lemon juice and in winter water with vinegar.
that said, in august, it would be my pleasure to join you in a triple espresso, proximity to the appropriate barista willing.
way to go on your progress and le grand success.
mc
I've just begun the warrior diet / kettlebell combination and am having a ball.
ReplyDeleteI'm the low-energy, hibernating, metabolism-of-a-sloth kind of guy but I work from home and the kettlebells sit next to my chair and notebook on the terrace where I work. Every hour or two I get up and go play. Or work towards choking up a hairball.
Not really noticing the minimal food intake during the undereating periods despite the physical activity.
Way to go man.
Hey Will, good to see you're on the Warrior Diet as well. I started it in late March and have been amazed by the improvements in my strength and conditioning. Best part for me is, if there's one thing us skinny guys know how to do, it's not eat.
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